Genesis 2:23

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Genesis 2:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the area with flesh.

22 And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.

23 And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”

24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

25 And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 29:14

Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Judges 9:2

“Please ask all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that seventy men, all the sons of Jerubbaal, rule over you, or just one man?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and blood.”

2 Samuel 5:1

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

2 Samuel 19:13

And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”

Ephesians 5:30

For we are members of His body.

1 Corinthians 11:8

For man did not come from woman, but woman from man.

1 Corinthians 11:9

Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.